Margaret Evangeline is a contemporary painter, sculptor, and installation artist who lives and works in New York City.
Evangeline was born in 1943 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the University of New Orleans, where she became the first female recipient of an MFA in the Fine Arts program. Soon after she began exhibiting her work and teaching at Delgado Community College, where she pioneered the school’s first fine arts program. She then relocated to New York City to continue her artistic career.
Evangeline has been the recipient of a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Benjamin M. Rosen Family Foundation Publishing Grant, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and has been a nominee for the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship and most recently The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition. She has participated in artist residencies such as those of the Louisiana Art Works International, ART/OMI Foundation, Vila Montalvo Foundation, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.
Evangeline’s work has been exhibited at places such as the New Orleans Museum of Art, Tucson Museum of Art, Hafnarborg Museum of Fine Art in Iceland, The Armory Show, and The Drawing Center in New York.